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I regret that you do not see your way to lay on a direct ship for the former place, or to land emigrants at the latter. I understand, in reference to my letter of the 14th ultimo, that your Company is prepared to convey emigrants to Port Chalmers at the rates and uuder the conditions mentioned in your tender of the 28th November last, subject to the condition that, should the Government arrange for the carriage of emigrants by steamer, they may, by four months' notice, determine the contract. I have, &c, Julius Yogel, Mr. James Galbraith, Glasgow. Agent-General.

Enclosure 3 in Xo. 1. Mr. Galbeaith to the Agent-Genebal. Albion Shipping Company (Limited), 15, St. Vincent Place, Glasgow, Sib— 9th July, 1878. My absence from town has prevented your letter of sth instant being replied to sooner. I do not find that I received from you a communication dated 14th ultimo, in reference to conveyance of emigrants from Clyde to New Zealand. However, I am prepared to carry out my offer of contract, as embodied in my letter to you of Bth November last. If you so wish, I have no objection to the proviso that should the Government arrange for the carriage of emigrants by steamer, they may, by four months' notice, terminate the contract, although the period of contract must, unless by immediate notice, have nearly terminated. I have, Ac, Jas. Galbeaith, The Agent-General for New Zealand, London. Managing Director.

Hfo. 2. The Agext-GtENEeal to the Hon. the Minister for Immigration. Sib, — 7, "Westminster Chambers, London, 12th July, 1878. I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of 23rd May, No. 96,* relating to the services of the Rev. Mr. Berry iv respect of emigration, on his return to England. I will endeavour to make the best practicable arrangement with Mr. Berry. He will, however, arrive too late to be of any service for securing emigrants this season. If convenient to him, it will probably be desirable to postpone his operations to next year. I have, &c., Julius Vogel, The Hon. the Minister for Immigration, Wellington. Agent-General.

No. 3. The Agent-General to the Hon. the Ministeb for Immigration. Sib, — 7, "Westminster Chambers, London, 17th July, 1878. Referring to that portion of your letter No. 82, of 26th April last.f in which you direct my special attention to the omission of clause 50 in the printed Conditions of the Shipping Contract, I have the honor to inform you that I at once placed myself in communication with Messrs G. D. Tyser and Co., and, haying explained to them the state of the case, requested them to furnish me with the rate at which the risk sought to be guarded against by the omitted clause could be insured against. I herewith transmit copy of Messrs. Tyser's letter in reply, in which you will observe that the underwriters do not see their way to insure against this particular risk by itself, but that they offer to include it in the risk if we also insure, against risks of loss of ship, the half passagemoney we pay here. At the rates we pay now, the insurance of half the passage-money against ordinary risk would be at the rate of 20s. They add 2s. 6d. for the risks under clause 50, though those risks are very slight—much slighter now that the vessels sail from Plymouth than formerly. 1 hardly think it worth paying the 2s. Gd. extra, but the half passage-money should be insured against ordinary risks of loss, and I await your instructions on the subject. I have, &c, The Hon. the Minister for Immigration, Jraitfs Vogel, "Wellington. Agent-General.

Enclosure in No. 3. Messrs. Ttseb and Co. to the Agent-General. Deab Sir,— 3, Crosby Square, London, E.C., 17th July, 1878. In reference to our conversations on the subject of the clause taken out of the contract with the new Contractors, and which you wish covered by insurance, we have consulted with underwriters, and find they object to consider the risk in question by itself, in consequence of the difficulty of defining what is the liability they are asked to cover ; they, however, would not object to take the risk • No. 17, D.-1., 1878. t No. 14, D.-L, 1878.